The Co-Evolution of Literature and Visual Culture

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Romantic poetsWilliam WordsworthWilliam BlakeSamuel Taylor ColeridgeJohn KeatsPercy Bysshe ShelleyLord ByronThe PicturesqueRomantic and PicturesqueThe Bloomsbury GroupNow of colour it must be noted that the color which reaches the eye from any part of a given object is made up of several factors, first there is what we call the local colour of the object, secondly the colour of the incident light at that point, thirdly the angle at which the light strikes the surface (for the further from a right angle that it falls, the less will the local colour affect the light which is given off from the object) and finally there is the alteration of the colour by the atmosphere lying between the object and the eye.--"The Philosophy of Impressionism," FryA late afternoon sun is shining across a landscape; in the foreground we will suppose there is the figure of a woman with white bonnet and pink dress gleaning in the stubble feild across which her shadow is cast. What will surprise the spectator, unaccustomed to Impressionist ways of looking at nature, will be, among other things, the intense blue violet colour on certain parts of the white bonnet--the blue green and violet cast shadows and the intense purple of certain shaded parts of the pink dress.--"The Philosophy of Impressionism," Fry"Here, sometimes, those who knew her experiences would stand and observe her, and wonder what sombre thoughts were beating inside that impassive, wrinkled brow, to the rhythm of the alternating milk-streams."--"The Withered Arm," Thomas Hardy, on the interior mindPost-ModernismImpressionismExterior Vs. InteriorNineteenth Century Realism: The camera sees things as they really are.Blake's Ancient of DaysClaude's Landscape with MerchantsTurner's Slave ShipA Daguerreotype of DaguerreHenry Fox TalbotPhotographic Realism in Francis Frith's Derby DayWilliam Holman Hunt's The Awakening ConsciencePhotography and Deceit in William Mumler's "spirit photograph" of Mary Todd LincolnMugshots and Physiognomy: When the camera sees what's inside.Phrenological Chart: A "science" of the interior mindHow things appear to the human eye:Monet's Impression du MatinChanging Representations of sexuality inToulouse-Lautrec's Dans le Lit, le BaiserVirginia WoolfRoger FryLemmen's Beach at HeistSeurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande JatteHow things appear and feel:Van Gogh's Starry Night,Art and AdvertisementThe effects of war on the city: Peronne, FranceCubasim, an experiment in representing movement in time and space: Duchamp's Nude Descending a StaircaseArt and War: Picasso's GuernicaThe Persistence of Memory: Dali's continued experiments with time, space, and dreamscapesJackson Pollock's Abstract ExpressionThe gap between reality and representation: Magritte's The Treachery of ImagesArt and Consumerism: Warhol's Tomato SoupCubism, The War, Time, and Space